...Charles B. Wade, Jr. A New Voyage to Carolina . By Lawson John . Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Lefler Hugh Talmage . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1967 . Pp. liv , 305 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book...

...C. N. Stavrou Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 C. N. Stavrou Gulliver s Voyage to the land of Dubliners In Our Friend, James Joyce by Mary and Padraic Colum, Joyce is quoted as follows on the subject of Jonathan Swift: He made a mess of two women s lives. . . . There is more...

...Theodore Ropp Death in the South Atlantic: The Last Voyage of the Graf Spee . By Powell Michael . New York. New York : Rinehart & Co., Inc. , 1957 . Pp. 247 . $3.95 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 537 For those interested in California...

...Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. The Golden Voyage: The Life and Times of William Bingham, 1752–1804 . By Alberts Robert C. . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1969 . Pp. xvii , 570 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 419 indisposition to bring...

...William Goldhurst Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: The Imaginary Voyages . Edited by Pollin Burton R. . Boston : Twayne Publishers (G. K. Hall & Co.) , 1981 . Pp. xix , 667 . $40.00 . 346 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... and the apostle of all things just and true, honest, lovely and of good report. Alice M. Baldwin. Sea Road to the Indies; An Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, together with the Life and Times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Cafitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira. By Henry H...

... of the Ameri­ can image upon French literature. Gilbert Chinard s L Amerique et le reve exotique dans la litterature franfaise au XVHe et au XVI11' siecle (Paris, 1913) is a study of the exotic nature of a particular type of French novel, extraordinary voyages. Geoffroy Atkinson manifests an interest...

... graphical Review, LIV (Oct., 1964), 576; also Tryggvi Oleson, Early Voyages and Northern Approaches, 1000-1632 (New York, 1964); and Ingstad. An ex­ cellent bibliography, with short critical comments on the 117 most significant books and articles on the subject published between 1939 and 1955, is Tryggvi...

... a Cristobal Colon y Sus Viajes [Madrid, 1892], prepared by the Spanish Royal Academy of History as its contribution to the fourth centennial of the discovery of America lists 4,675 items which relate to the person of Columbus, to his family, and to his voyages. The editors warned the public...

... of earning a living for a large family. No wonder that in 1837, at the age of eighteen, Herman went to sea. On this first voyage he sailed as a ship s boy on a merchantman bound for Liverpool. The voyage may well have marked Melville s initiation into adulthood, but it may also have temporarily soured his...

... he saw early twentieth-century America engaging in its mercantile endeav­ ors would have made the encounter between two such incompatible temperaments nec­ essarily brief and therefore inconsequential. But Voyage au bout de la nuit's extended ac­ count of New York s urban Darwinism and Detroit s...

... on board. Since it was unable to enforce its monopoly, the company sought to ex­ tract rent by selling licenses for voyages of separate traders. Some bought the licenses in order to rid themselves of the risk of seizure and to use certain specified services of the company s employees in Africa. But others...

... who had returned from voyages to all parts of the world. He tells us how deeply the tales of their adventures interested him. I us d ofttimes, he says, to sculk behind the doors of victualling houses, to hear the sea-men give an account of their adventures. The Smoak of tobacco was offensive to me...

... and Illustrations. $17.95. This handsomely illustrated condensation of Admiral Morison s two-volume work on the European Discoveries of America adds the lives and voyages of Magellan and Drake. In following his pro­ tagonists on their great adventures, Morison seems to become one of them. As he resails...

..., the colonies, the suburbs, and industrial cities: the subjects of Celine s Voyage au bout de la nuit are precisely the ones that Cendrars and Berl were asking for. Cendrars specifically ac­ knowledged the widespread interest in Voyage and the proximity of that novel to his own Moravagine-. I see there s a lot...

... with the permission of Little, Brown & Company, ccc 0038-2876/9450. 374 Alice Kaplan On 23 April 1934, Little, Brown launched Journey to the End of the Night, John Marks s translation of Voyage au bout de la nuit, which had created a scandal in France two years previously. The company spent $3,178 of a $5,000 budget...

...: The European Discovery Of America. By Samuel Eliot Morison. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xxv, 752. Maps and Illustrations. $17.95. This handsomely illustrated condensation of Admiral Morison s two-volume work on the European Discoveries of America adds the lives and voyages of Magellan...

... Voyage au bout de la nuit as the inchoate work of a lumpen revolutionary, the instinctive exposure of a corrupt and rotten sys­ tem. This political reading of Celine had its limits, but it contributed to the celebrity and ambiguity of his first novel, especially in Paris, where his work was closely...

..., ostensibly the book was to be another romance like the two preceding tropical tales good but not superb novels of sea-adventure. It was soon evident, however, that the voyage in the tropics was but a prelude to the principal part of the work. Mardi is no island gem in the blue Pacific but the whole world...

... of Edgar Allan Poe: The Imaginary Voyages. Edited by Burton R. Pollin. Boston: Twayne Publishers (G. K. Hall & Co 1981. Pp. xix, 667. $40.00. This collection of Poe s longer fictional narratives forms part of Twayne Publishers ambitious Critical Editions Program, which will eventually offer annotated...